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How to Be Content - An Ancient Poet's Guide for an Age of Excess by Stephen Harrison; Horace
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Category: Self Help | Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers Ser.
What the Roman poet Horace can teach us about how to live a life of contentment What are the secrets to a contented life? One of Rome's greatest and most influential poets, Horace (65-8 BCE) has been cherished by readers for more than two thousand years not only for his wit, style, and reflections ...Show more
How to Be Healthy : An Ancient Guide to Wellness by Galen
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Category: Reference | Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers Ser.
Timeless wisdom about how to be healthy in body and mind from one of the greatest physicians of the ancient world The second-century Greek physician Galen--the most famous doctor in antiquity after Hippocrates--is a central figure in Western medicine. A talented doctor, surgeon, writer, philosopher, tea ...Show more
How to Care about Animals: An Ancient Guide to Creatures Great and Small by Prophyry and Friends; M. D. Usher (Translated with commentary by)
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Category: Reference | Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers Ser.
An entertaining and enlightening anthology of classical Greek and Roman writings on animals--and our vital relationships with them How to Care about Animals is a fascinating menagerie of passages from classical literature about animals and the lives we share with them. Drawing on ancient writers fro ...Show more
How to Do the Right Thing by Seneca
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Category: Reference | Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers Ser.
How ancient Stoicism can help teach us to treat others-and ourselves-more fairly and mercifully There are times when we’ve all felt that we haven’t been treated as we deserve-that we’ve been misjudged, short-changed, or given a raw deal. And, at one time or another, other people have probably felt that ...Show more
How to Flourish An Ancient Guide to Living Well by Aristotle
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Category: Reference | Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers Ser.
Aristotle's essential guide to human flourishing--the Nicomachean Ethics--in a lively new abridged translation Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is one of the greatest guides to human flourishing ever written, but its length and style have left many readers languishing. How to Flourish is a carefully a ...Show more
How to Focus : A Monastic Guide for an Age of Distraction by John Cassian
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Category: Reference | Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers Ser.
How you can learn to focus like a monk without living like one Distraction isn't a new problem. We're also not the first to complain about how hard it is to concentrate. Early Christian monks beat us to it. They had given up everything to focus on God, yet they still struggled to keep the demons of di ...Show more
How to Grieve: An Ancient Guide to the Lost Art of Consolation by Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Category: Self Help | Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers Ser.
An engaging new translation of a timeless masterpiece about coping with the death of a loved oneIn 45 BCE, the Roman statesman Cicero fell to pieces when his beloved daughter, Tullia, died from complications of childbirth. But from the depths of despair, Cicero fought his way back. In an effort to cope ...Show more
How to Have a Life: An Ancient Guide to Using Our Time Wisely by Seneca
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Category: Self Help | Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers Ser.
A vibrant new translation of Seneca's "On the Shortness of Life," a pointed reminder to make the most of our timeWho doesn't worry sometimes that smart phones, the Internet, and TV are robbing us of time and preventing us from having a life? How can we make the most of our time on earth? In the first ce ...Show more
How to Keep an Open Mind: An Ancient Guide to Thinking Like a Skeptic by Sextus Empiricus
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Category: Self Help | Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers Ser.
How ancient skepticism can help you attain tranquility by learning to suspend judgment Along with Stoicism and Epicureanism, Skepticism is one of the three major schools of ancient Greek philosophy that claim to offer a way of living as well as thinking. How to Keep an Open Mind provides an unmatched in ...Show more
How to Say No: An Ancient Guide to the Art of Cynicism by Diogenes
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Category: Self Help | Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers Ser.
An entertaining and enlightening collection of ancient writings about the philosophers who advocated simple living and rejected unthinking conformityThe Cynics were ancient Greek philosophers who stood athwart the flood of society's material excess, unexamined conventions, and even norms of politeness a ...Show more
How to Tell a Joke: An Ancient Guide to the Art of Humor by Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Category: Humour Gift | Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers Ser.
Timeless advice about how to use humor to win over any audience Can jokes win a hostile room, a hopeless argument, or even an election? You bet they can, according to Cicero, and he knew what he was talking about. One of Rome's greatest politicians, speakers, and lawyers, Cicero was also reputedly one ...Show more
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